Kevin Munt Golf Consultant

Golf Greens - 2mm Height of Cut your USP?

After over a dozen articles on the subject, more than 200 thread posts, and in excess of 22,000 Forum page views, the issue of mowing greens as low as 2mm, on a continuous basis throughout the growing season, came to a head at the BIGGA’s BTME currently being staged in Harrogate.

Since Ealing Golf Club’s Course Manager Greg Evans went to press with this radical concept, I have not been slow in making my opinion known on this subject. So like everyone else in the 220 plus throng, who attended at 08.00 yesterday morning, I have been eagerly looking forward to this debate for sometime.

Golf is played on a green surface!

Here’s a new one for all you greenkeepers in England. What are you expecting to find once the snow cover melts on your greens? Unless you are managing a course in the highlands of Scotland it is unlikely that the majority of you have seen snow cover on your course last this long before.

How to grow great Poa annua Golf Greens

Come on lets admit it at least seventy percent of the golf greens in the UK have Poa annua (Annual Meadow Grass) (AMG) as their dominant species. Some Golf Course Managers are fighting it and trying to encourage the finer grasses to gain a greater hold, and more power to them, but the majority are making best of what they have and what they have is Poa annua!

So if you are working with Poa annua just how do you get the best out of it and how do you get it to give you good putting surfaces?